Favorite Things: What are Your Favorite Holiday Recipes?

I got out my Mom’s old recipe box. It’s one of those metal 4″by6″ boxes with the index cards. She had it when I was a kid and it still has all her old recipes in it. Very special to me since she is now deceased.

I pull it out on Mother’s day and make one of her creations in her honor. Just today, I sifted through it and found her recipe for the Bacardi Rum Cake. She would make it every Christmas from about 1969 on. I think I will make one this year.

It sort of jumped out at me because she stuck the original magazine paper that it was on onto a card. I remember it being my favorite thing at Christmas. It was so moist, and rum-y, and decadent!

Here’s the recipe as it was printed circa 1970: Enjoy if you wish, or just send it along…or not.